The German Football League (DFL) has backed Marco van Basten's plans to introduce sin bins.

Last week, Van Basten, who is FIFA's chief officer for technical development, said rule changes are under consideration to make the game more attractive.

Among the proposals was to introduce a time penalty of five or 10 minutes and replace yellow cards to punish teams in a match rather than after a number of matches.

That idea has now been backed by DFL CEO Christian Seifert, who said: "I think it makes sense that football adapts to the technical options we have these days.

"Sin bins make much more sense for the match than yellow cards."

Citing the success of recent changes to the game like the introduction of goal-line technology or the use of vanishing pray have been a success, Seifert added that we could also see an "automatised offside detection" in the future.

Earlier this week, the DFL announced plans to use video assistant referees (VAR) from next season.

VAR will only be used for clear matters and in four separate situations -- for irregularities in the case of a goal decision, penalty box situations regarding penalty calls, red card offences unnoticed by the referee, and in cases of mistaken identity over a yellow or red card.

Time wasting and orange cards go hand in hand. The teammates of an orange carded player would waste time if they are content with the scoreline, until their colleague would be allowed back in the match.

ottackon wrote:For the penalty, it was the referee's call, video was not involved.

Exactly. Who decides when to use the video replay? Is it the referee or the video assistant who notifies the referee? Because there is going to be accusations of bias or cheating anyway if some calls are not reviewed.

ottackon wrote:For the penalty, it was the referee's call, video was not involved.

Exactly. Who decides when to use the video replay? Is it the referee or the video assistant who notifies the referee? Because there is going to be accusations of bias or cheating anyway if some calls are not reviewed.

The referee informs the VARs or the VARs recommend to the referee that a decision/ incident should be reviewed.

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